an unscripted moment from uc davis. >> and a bizarre discovery. a dead bear is dumped on an east bay city street.

good evening, everyone. tonight california voters got their first head to head comparison of the two candidates running for governor. >> jerry brown and meg whitman mixed it up in their first televised debate of the campaign. mark matthews is live in uc davis tonight with the highlights. mark? >> dan, it was a much-anticipated debate. both candidates knowing there is a lot on the line. both stayed for the most part close to their well-scripted messages. outside the hall, however, a little less than a carefully control crowd got into a shouting match with whitman backers. there was along -- there was a little shoving.

700 seats left empty. the candidates wanted it that way to keep the crowd less of a factor. for jerry brown and meg whitman, the first question of the night was how to fix the state's budget impasse. and their answers forecast how the rest of the night would go. meeting whit map sidesteped the question in favor of tax cuts. >> we need to eliminate the factory tax. i want to stream line red tape so it is not hard to do business in california. >> jerry brown answered by saying he would get everyone in the legislature together. >> you start the week after the election. i will bring all 120 together. i don't care whether it takes 200 hours, 500 hours. >> both candidates covering well worn ground. >> my view is he will bring people together after he is elected governor, and it will be a meeting of all the special interests and the unions who are there to collect their iou's from the campaign they have funded. >> they won't try to respond

to the tv commercial i have seen too much of, ad nauseam. but in the tax cuts, it is targeted to billionaires like miss whitman and millionaires. >> on job creation, the job future is green. >> you can put people to work by retrofiting the inefficient buildings in california by the hundreds of thousands. >> the truth is we are not competitive to neighboring state. 30 or 40 years ago maybe we didn't have so much competition, but we do now. >> both said they would protect the colleges and universities from fees. brown supports a path to citizenship for those in the criminal -- country illegally. whitman does not, but supports a guest worker program. one of the unscripted motions brown was asked about his pension for running for president. >> what assurances you can offer to voters that this time around you would focus on the

job? >> each. when i was young -- age. you know if i was younger i would run again. >> and he said he is married. >> i come home at night. i don't try to close down the bars like i did when i was governor of california. >> by contrast, witman never wavered from her message. >> putting jerry brown in charge of negotiating with the labor unions around pensions and around how many people we have in the state government is like putting count dracula in charge of the blood bank. >> after the debate whitman told reporters she thought it went round. brown by is pad the room and went out to shake hands with members of the audience. >> so this debate was a condensed version of the campaign we have seen so far. meg whitman says she thinks there is much more that could be covered. the next debate is saturday in fresno. mark matthews, abc7 news. >> thank you, mark. a federal judge blocked the execution of albert brown.

he was scheduled to die by lethal injection at san quentin on thursday night. judge jeremy foggle said he didn't have time to weigh the constitutional issues surrounding this case. it comes after a federal appeals court that the judge wants to look into the lethal injection procedures. the state's existing supply of one of the drugs used in executions expires on friday. that means if a higher court does not reverse the decision by friday night, the state will be unable to execute brown for several months. the big question in san leandro, how did a dead bear get there? the carcass showed up sunday night outside a market on foothill bowel -- boulevard. it had been shot. now authorities are trying to figure out who dumped this bear and why? amy hollyfield is live in san leandro with a very strange set of circumstances. >> dan, how did they get away with it? it has a liquor store, a deli

and a taco restaurant and they were all open at the time. it was lie thrg on the sidewalk plain as day. but when the owner of el taco first saw it, he didn't believe it. >> when we pulled in the parking lot it was like, oh, look, someone is passed out drunk. and then my son said, no, it is a dog. i said, no, it is a bear. he said, it is a stuffed animal and i said, no, it is a bear. look at it. >> it was hard to believe because it was in front of a busy strip mall and all of the stores were open. >> it is hard to believe somebody would drop a dead bear off and not tell anyone. >> the animal was dead and had a gunshot wound to the shoulder. the bear was discovered at 6:30 on sunday night. one witness told store workers he saw a pick up truck driving away. >> right here of all places in the world, yeah, i have no idea. maybe we live locally and they just want to dump it before they go home. >> they were asking questions

and crowding around the picture. >> i was shocked there were bears in this neighborhood. to see a dead bear here, it was sad. >> a fish and game spokesman says black bears do not live in the east bay. it is black bear hunting season, but authorities don't think a licensed hunter would dump a 300-pound bear on a public sidewalk. >> why didn't they take it to the butcher shop and eat the thing? we used to hunt bear, and we would have bear burgers and bear sausage and bear steak, but just to kill the thing and leave it on the sidewalk is a waste and inhumane. >> it is illegal to waste game. it is a muscularmeanor. they want to know if the person who killed it was licensed to kill bear and why they killed it. they don't think it was killed here. a spokesperson says black bears do not live here. the closest black bears are probably in men dough seen know county. -- mendocino county.

amy hollyfield, abc news. >> thank you, amy. record-setting heat forced shut downs. the air conditioned piedmont library in oakland closed early because temperatures inside climbed past 87 degrees. that's above what is allowed by the city. the park also closed because of extreme fire danger. caesar chavez plaza drew a crowd. the fountains were popular with children trying to cool down in the 99-degree heat. sandhya patel is here now. 99 in san jose, but you also have a lot of triple digit temperatures across the bay. >> absolutely. and this day will go down in the record books. we had 10 records. one was a tie out of the 10. santa rosa, 104 degrees. 99 in san rafael. sfo was 9 5. oakland international, 100. breaking it previous record of -- its previous record. the city of oakland, 92 degrees. that was the tie. richmond 97. moffett field, 96 degrees.

look at livermore. it was scorching hot at 105 degrees. gilroy up there at 10 4. and san jose, 99 degrees. other parts of the bay area got up to 103 in concord and 101 in morgan hill. san francisco, 92 degrees. 100 in napa. you in the though half moon bay, 72 degrees. we are going to see considerably cooler weather as we head in toward your wednesday. especially at the coastline. inland areas will see a drop off as well. the full look at your accu-weather seven-day forecast coming up. >> great, sandhya, thanks. a natural gas leak on alameda's bay farm island has been capped. they cliped a four-inch pg&e line. it happened around 2:00 this afternoon. here is a you report photo sent in by steven bowman of the line being repaired. thanks for that. the shelter in place was in affect for uh while and a dozen homes in the bay farm elementary was evacuated.

everything is okay now. meantime, the federal emergency management agency rejected the request for millions of dollars in federal aide for victims of the san bruno pipeline disaster. fema says the cost should be covered by state and local governments as well as pg&e that owns the ruptured pipeline. fema will reimburse the state for up to 75% of firefighting costs. jackie spears thinks the state will appeal fema's decision. an eighth person has died a is a result of that explosion in san bruno. 58-year-old james fran co suffered severe burns. he was taken off life support yesterday at ucsf. abc7's lisa amin gulezian reports on the latest life lost in the tragedy. >> james franco or jimmy as his friends call him is described as generous, funny and loyal. he has now become the eighth person to die from the san bruno explosion.

>> franco worked for a pest control company. the epicenter was 200 yards, just three houses away. and on september 9th, jimmy franco ran for his life. i >>- q. -- >> i went back up and that's when fran co was coming back down. >> he owns the three-story house franco called home. he helped the 58-year-old escape from the burning building. the front door was surrounded by flames. they went out the back, but a fence got in the way. >> i had to jump over it, but he couldn't. i went back and knocked down the fence that way he can go out too. >> they found police and medics immediately and franco was rushed to san francisco general where doctors put him in a drug-enduced coma. >> you hope for full recovery and they diminish bit by bit. >> that's how eric laughlin found his friend of 4 4 years. franklin never woke up.

he was taken off life support yesterday. >> it is pretty dramatic when people disappear that rapidly. you are never prepared for that. >> laugh lynn is now making -- laughlin is now making arrangements. he had few things he cared about exscept for this. >> this was his only prized possession. >> the van. it survived the explosion when nothing else did. in san bruno, lisa amin gulezian. moving on, people look forward to it every year, but this year the pros stayed away from san francisco's cable car bell ringing contest. that's next. >> and devastating news for many of uc berkeley's student athletes. >> and then on "nightline." >> i'm cynthia mcfaden. dan and carolyn, up next on "nightline" how your favorite nature documentary could have been completely staged. a whistleblower describes an elaborate scene. and warnings of a potential

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looking for a parolee in connection with a violent sexual assault and robbery. the suspect is this man, 25-year-old shalocco. he has distinctive tatoos on his neck. the attack happened in the potrero hill housing development where the suspect lives with his grandmother. >> he entered another location next door. he sexually assaulted a female about 45 years of age. robbed her, took about a thousand dollars cash and beat her severely. >> police say the grandmother heard the woman scream and went next door. she tried to stop her grandson, but he ran. police do not know if he is armed. they say if you see him, do not approach him. call 911. police in oaknd la believe gang members are responsible for wounding a six-year-old girl when they unleashed a hail of bullets on her home. she was sleeping with her parents when she was shot in the arm and chest. herer is says she is doing -- her sister says she is doing okay tonight. this is the third time in less than a year the house has come

under fire. the gunman may have been after the girl's 18-year-old brother, though he denies being in a gang and does president know why he -- doesn't know why he is being targeted. uc berkeley is cutting sports to save money. bruno learned as of next year there will be no cal baseball. the chancellor announced baseball, men's and women's gymnastics, rugby and lacrosse will no longer be inter collegiate sports at cal. the chancellor said he had to make the tough call because of state budget cuts and rising costs in the athletics department. >> we went two years without hiring faculty. we went a year with furloughs and laid off 500 low paid workers which we hated to do. we could not justify university support of inter collegiate athletics at the level of 10 or 15 or 20 million dollars. it is not possible. >> hopefully it works out for me. it was not the cookie cuter idea i had coming into

berkeley. somehow we will make the best of it this year. >> these cuts affect 163 of cal's 814 inter collegiate athletes as well as 13 full time coaches. the university says it will honor all current athletic scholarships regardless of the decision. we had record heat, but change is on the way tonight. >> yes, well could change. meteorologist sandhya patel is here with the forecast. >> the welcome change we are talking about is fog. it is already near the coastline. the sea breeze is back. tomorrow we will in the temperatures falling up to 24 degrees in san francisco. tomorrow's high, after a 92-degree reading only 68 in san francisco. we had plenty of records around the bay area. if case you maced it, anything with an asterisk is a record. 105 in livermore, 99 in san jose. up to 92 in oakland. san rafael, 99. look at santa rosa, 104. even places like santa cruz, 96 degrees today.

numbers are coming down. we have 50s and 60s showing up across the board. 70s and 80s around the bayside and inland communities. the fog is back. half moon bay has visibility down to three miles. it is setting the tone for cooler conditions at the coast and the bay on wednesday. not as hot inland. here is the computer animation. the fog is filling in on the coastline by morning. it starts out gray for all coastal communities for your wednesday inland areas, you will continue to see the midand high level clouds streaming through. we are seeing some of the clouds courtesey of the low pressure spinning up the clouds. we will see them again tomorrow. the clouds will filter the sun and they will knock this strong ridge with the hot air mass down to where the sea breeze strengthens. it means temperatures are not as hot as today. tonight you are looking at the

fog along the coastline. temperatures in the 50s. inland areas are still running mild with low do mid60s -- low to mid60s. 94 in los gatos. 87 degrees in cupertino. san jose, 83 in sunnyvale. 82 for palo alto. 77 in san mateo. a mix of sun and high clouds. half moon bay, you will go from the low 70s to 64 degrees tomorrow. downtown san francisco once again noticeably cooler from 92 to 68. you will see the fog around. in the north bay, mid-nineties for cloverdale. 90 degrees in calistoga. 87 in santa rosa. still warm there. in the east bay, 78 in oakland. 82 for castro valley. head inland and we are out of the triple digits, bringing you to the low to mid-nineties. 90 in walnut creek and 94 for livermore. 75 in santa cruz. inland, gilroy, 89 degrees. here is your accu-weather seven-day forecast -- it is a cooling trend really taking you through the end of the

week and into the weekend. temperatures falling each and every day after the mid-nineties tomorrow inland you will only be in the mid80s range right through the start of the weekend. low 60s beaches. sunday, monday 80 in the warmest locations. even dropping a little below normal for this time of year. >> nice change though. >> absolutely after the blistering heat. >> thanks, sandhya. >> a state law that bans texting while driving could make our roads less safe. make our roads less safe. >> the surprising

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something of a surprise at the 48th cable car bell ringing competition. the competetors boycotted it, leaving only amateurs in their place. the muni drivers just did not show up for this. >> the real bell ringers never showed. apparent protests to highlight the disagreements with management over salary and arbitration among them. this man who has won the

competition the past three times was anxious to play. but he had a routine ready and everything. but he told our wayne freedman that unity matters more. the transit workers union said it had nothing to do with the poor attendance. the ban of texting while driving may have a different affect than anticipated. they looked at four state with texting while driving bans, including california, and found no fewer crashes. in fact, three of the state had more crashes after the bans went into affect. one explanation is it may make texting drivers more sneaky and therefore less careful. the u.s. transportation secretary says it is misleading and it shows a cause and affect that just isn't there. >> not a good idea. lair lair -- larry is up next. >> you don't want to be -- you know, slowly they turn, step by step, inch by inch. the giants are closing in on a

playoff birth. it is courtesey of ron uribe, and the lead grows in the on a d

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the giants played one game, but took two steps toward locking up a playoff spot. they got a little help in san diego. jonathon sanchez on the hill. it was enough through six innings. he found some trouble and kelly johnson, high, deep and aloha. a solo homer and the giants answer and bottom of three. the little guy is in the middle of everything. a single to center and it is a 2-1 gape. and then in the fourth -- 2-1 game. and then uribe and boom. his 23rd of the year and ties a career high and we are tied at two. 2340* quit in -- no quit in arizona. make the catch briefly and could not hold on. he was saying, i got the ball, not him! the go ahead r.b.i in the bottom of the 6th. wilson with a five-out save and gets parra to end it.

4-2, giants with a win and they get some assistance. down south, cubs in san diego and soriano homers twice. and then insurance in the eighth, here it comes and there it goes. chicago wins it 5-2. the giant lead the west now by two games with just five to play. a's and angels playing out the stripping. -- the string. kouzmanoff and the kouz jumps on the sinker and takes the former athletic deep. that's a base hit to left. the angels tack on two more and go on to victory 4-2. life after nelly has begun for the warriors. not a moment too soon. if you ask ellis, ellis didn't say anything bad about don nelson, but he is looking forward to new direction under keith smart. he says even before their first practice last year, the warriors all knew it was gonna

be a long season. and now it is new owner, new coach, new attitude. >> last year we came to training camp, and we knew what kind of season we were going to have. this year we have a new logo. everything is transitioning to a new beginning. >> speaking of attitude change, jim harbough has turned stanford football into a pac-10 beast. harbaugh was asked about maintaining a calm business-like demeanor. >> you think i have a business-like smooth, calm demeanor? you are the first to ever say that. >> no, we are attacking each day like we said we would. enthusiasm unknown to mankind. >> i like that, unknown to mankind. >> first time you heard that one? >> his transition from hysterical to dead serious is

somewhat frightening. we will have the stanford-oregon game here on saturday afternoon at 5:00. it is the prime time game on abc. two teams in the top 10, so it should be fun. >> a great game. >> [laughing]. "nightline" is coming up next. >> thank for joining us, everyone. >> we will be back in the evening, of course. we appreciate your time. see you tomorrow.